Should Mumsnet be going to Baby Show ? We need your views

Basically we've had a great response to our appeal for help running a stall at the Baby Show. But now something has come up and, as usual, we want you to contribute to our decision. We've had an email from a mumsnetter saying that Clarion, the Baby Show organisers, also organise arms fairs and questioning whether, in that case, Mumsnet should be associated with them.

I don't think any of us are pro arms, but you could argue that Clarion aren't manufacturing or selling arms, they're just the organisers of a fair.

If we attend the Baby Show we have the chance to introduce Mumsnet (a good thing we hope you'll agree ) to several thousand mums-to-be who will then find out, for example, why lots of Mumsnetters boycott Nestle as well as the truth about fruit shoots and Greggs sausage rolls.

Or we pull out now. It's another one of those 'where do you draw the line?' discussions and we're torn. What do you think?

Off the top of my head and without looking into it at all... if Clarion really does organise arms fairs, then it's making profits from the arms industry. Personally I think the arms industry is corrupt and scary as shite. So I'd say, pull out and tell 'em why.

I doubt there's any major company/corporation that doesn't do something that someone doesn't like. Arms Fairs in themselves aren't the problem (although I've been to a few that squicked me out, discussing the damage spread of hollow point bullets isn't something I want to go back to) Corrupt companies selling via third parties to corrupt/evil arsed regimes is. It's naive to think that we could have a world without Arms or the Armed Forces, it's a lovely thought but it isn't going to happen.

so they've actively gone out and bought the arms fair business because other people pressurised previous parent company to get rid of it for ethical reason?so they actually know there are people out there who disapprove of profiting from arms?then they should know that there are lots of people like that. Tis not to do with disapproving of armed forces per se, as you could make a case for needing an armed force, but these people will sell to anyone, including those who ill use weapons (and torture equipment) agains civilian poplulations. Campaign against the Arms Trade will have plenty of info.Don't go, MN!(if I had been thnking about running a stall, which I'm not, this would stop me. Or, perhaps, I might go and ...well...diversify...)